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Unanswered: Providing database for clients

Hello, I am trying to provide some kind of hosting system to my clients.

I am now thinking of automatically creating a new database and a new user when they register. But I am concerned about the scalability of this approach.

I can aswell put all the data to one database and give foreign key to users that I know who owns which data. But this will make my searches much longer.

The problem is there won't be MANY users but they will save MANY data.
And I want to be able to save, reroll, close, open the database of a specific user, this is more easily done with multiple databases I guess.

Soo.. would 50 or 100 databases create much overhead on todays computers? Is it simply acceptable?